Chimariko

The Chimariko language was spoken along the Trinity River from its confluence with the South Fork Trinity River to the east, as well as in the upland valley of New River to the north and at the confluence of the South Fork Trinity River and Hayfork Creek to the south. In pre-contact times, there were a few hundred speakers (Silver 1978). The last first-language speaker died in the 1950s (Golla 2011).